Chromatograph Integrated Touch Display for Data Confirmation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional chromatographs require a separate data processing apparatus for displaying chromatograms, leading to increased power consumption and limited space for a large display screen within the chromatograph, making it difficult for operators to confirm detailed chromatogram data or compare analysis results.
Innovation Solution
Integration of a touch panel display screen and a display processing unit within the chromatograph, allowing operators to modify and confirm chromatograms through touch operations, including zooming, superimposing, and real-time display management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If a separate data processing apparatus is connected to the chromatograph for displaying chromatograms, then the display screen size can be relatively large, but power consumption increases and the operator cannot confirm data unless the data processing apparatus is activated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the data processing unit and display device directly into the chromatograph main body, combining previously separate functions (chromatograph, data processing apparatus, and display) into a single integrated system. This eliminates the need for a separate data processing apparatus, reducing power consumption while maintaining data confirmation capability within the chromatograph itself.
2Use of energy by moving object
If a data processing unit and display are provided in the main body of the chromatograph, then power consumption is reduced, but it is difficult to secure enough space for a display with a large display screen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes a touch panel display that allows for dynamic scaling and zooming capabilities, enabling the display of detailed chromatogram information within a smaller physical screen area. The touch panel interface provides multiple levels of magnification and interactive exploration of data, effectively compensating for the reduced physical display area through dimensional manipulation of the displayed content.
3Ease of operation
If a display with a large display screen is provided separately from the chromatograph, then the operator can easily confirm data, but the operator cannot confirm details of chromatogram or compare analysis results of multiple times in the main body
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a touch panel display with dynamic zooming and magnification capabilities that allow operators to interactively explore chromatogram details. The display can dynamically adjust between overview mode and detailed view mode, and can superimpose multiple chromatograms for comparison, providing both ease of operation and detailed confirmation capability within the integrated system.
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AI summary
A gas chromatograph is provided with a main body, a detector 4, a display 11, and a display processing unit 132. The display 11 is provided in the main body. Further, a touch panel type display screen is included in the display 11. The display processing unit 132, based on a detection signal from the detector 4, displays a chromatogram in a first graph region in the display screen, and, based on a touch operation performed by an operator with respect to the first graph region, modifies the display in the first graph region.